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Editor: Ancient History Memorabilia
The world is so big, with the development of the Internet age, the unknown miserable life hidden in the beautiful and bright world is gradually revealed.
Some laughed, others washed their faces with tears; Some people are reunited with their families, and some people don't know where their home is; Some people have happy families, and some people are afraid to go home.
It is unimaginable how much psychological shadow a bad family of origin can bring to people. Family, will affect people's life, a bad native family will put another shackle on people, even if they grow up financially independent, it is difficult to break free from this bad native family.
There is a woman who is like this, until she is forty years old, she really came out of the shadow brought by her native family. She is the short video blogger called "Grandma En" on Douyin.
Many people know "Grandma Eun" because of her series of short videos, which are the "Cinderella and Stepmother" series of fun English, in which she appears with her daughter Eun, Eun is the "Cinderella" who wipes the handrail of the stairs, and she is the "vicious stepmother" in a gorgeous dance dress.
She often begins with a magical "Cinderella", with the tone of difficult Cinderella, randomly teaching some English common sense, with a sound of "Cinderella", Grandma En's successful engraving of the magic sound into the brains of netizens, the direct "victim" of her magical "destruction" is not only the little girl En, but also various netizens, some fans exclaimed in the comment area: "I think that the English teacher could not teach me grammar collocation, but I learned it here."
She dressed as a vicious stepmother and dragged English and taught Cinderella how to distinguish the different meanings of different English words in the sentences from example sentences. Each work in the "Cinderella and Stepmother" short video series is extremely dramatic, making "Grandma Eun" rise to millions of followers in just 3 days. New fans often ask her if she is Eun's grandmother or stepmother.
In fact, "Grandma En" was the founder of an English brand, a senior English teacher with 20 years of teaching experience, a principal for five years, and a lot of spoken English textbooks, and she gave birth to her daughter Eun at the age of forty.
The reason why "Grandma En" is called "Grandma" is because when she filmed the video in the early days, some netizens commented that she was "not like the child's mother, more like the grandmother", so she "angrily" changed the account name to "Grandma En", which was self-deprecating.
The "Grandma En" in the video is confident and smiling, talking and doing things in a stormy manner, can see her outgoing personality, behind her joyful video, how can it be a heart full of holes? How did she come out of the shadows of the past?
In the "Cinderella and the Stepmother" video series, there are two things that make up the entire series: fairy tales and English.
These two things have great significance to "Grandma En", and are inseparable from her upbringing. "Grandma Eun" said, "If there were no past experience, there would be no me now." ”
"Grandma En" is a native of Hubei, and in her childhood memories, the existence of "home" is not at all full of love and warmth as others say, but represents fear and hatred. Her father was extremely controlling, and he was a perennial alcoholic, and it goes without saying what the consequences of drinking are, and she and her mother were always scarred.
His father left an indelible shadow on the heart of the young "Grandma En", so even if "Grandma En" went to Hainan to work thousands of miles away after graduating from university, he was still terrified when he received his father's call. She was afraid, afraid that when she received her father's call, his father threatened to kill her because he was drunk, and she was even more afraid that if she did not answer the phone, her mother would be beaten worse and worse. She grew up trembling in such a living environment, and the only way she could escape reality was to watch fairy tales, which were the only warm light in her childhood.
In addition to watching fairy tales, "Grandma Eun" also has a hobby of learning English. In the small towns of the eighties and nineties, all children were exposed to English relatively late, and since "Grandma Eun" began to contact English classes in junior high school, she fell in love with learning English.
"Every kid's interests are different, and I thought it would be cool to be able to speak a language that no one else understands." "Grandma Eun" said so.
So she put a lot of effort into English, whether it was memorizing words or learning grammar, she was at the top of the class in every exam, and finally admitted to the English major, and then has been engaged in English-related work. Just like when she was learning English, she did well both as an English tutor and an English training teacher. She is especially good at enlightenment education, most of the students taught are preschool children, children are difficult to concentrate, in contact with children, "Grandma En" gradually explored the way to "deal with children", she used a slightly exaggerated expression and tone of voice to lecture, really attracted the attention of children.
"Some netizens say that I teach English seems a bit open-minded, but you don't open your teeth and dance your claws, how do you attract the attention of children?" She explained.
Her approach to teaching is not only to attract students' attention with pompous facial movements, she also places special emphasis on situational teaching, she especially disapproves of rote learning English, which she feels has little effect. When she was the principal of the business, she specially invited foreign teachers to give cooking classes and play soccer to the students, so that the students could learn English in interest, and concentrate out of interest, and naturally learned how to express "oven", "cooking", "stir-frying", "shooting" and so on in English.
Grandma En's situational English teaching method proved to be very effective, and the children in the enlightenment stage learned more and more English words through interest-based learning, and even could easily carry out daily conversations in English.
When her career was going smoothly and she was about to get on the right track in life, life dealt her another fatal blow. Her father was drunk and made trouble outside, injuring an elderly man with diabetes, who woke up and gradually lost his sight, and soon after had an accident and fell to his death. Although blindness is one of the complications of diabetes, the elderly family insists that it is caused by the father's violence.
With her father being taken away by the police, a big stone in the heart of "Grandma En" finally fell to the ground, and she always believed that her father should pay for her violence, and now it has finally come true. But her mother begged bitterly in front of her, and even knelt down to beg her to save her father, and she couldn't understand why she was doing this, obviously her mother was the biggest victim. Only later did she understand that in her mother's heart, a complete home was more important than anything else.
Forced by her mother's pleading, coupled with the bits and pieces of dependence with her mother appeared in front of the eyes of "Grandma En", she could only smile bitterly and exchange all her assets for cash compensation to the victim's family, so she released her father on bail. Once again, she had nothing, everything she had earned over the years.
She locked herself in the room and couldn't help but think over and over again what she had done wrong, and the state at that time could be described as a darkness, according to the original words of "Grandma Eun", it was to fall to the bottom again.
But blindly decadent sadness can't solve anything, and she doesn't want to give up on herself. A month later, "Grandma En" cheered up and decided to go north alone to enter the Internet industry to fight her career again.
She worked for a well-known Internet company in Beijing, where she ate only one meal a day, often worked until midnight, and lived in the most dilapidated and cramped rental house, wearing only a jacket for 29 yuan. She lived for three years after such a hard time. Fortunately, her efforts paid off, she gradually accumulated some contacts and resources in the Internet industry, and she decided to stay in the Internet field to start a company. This time the venture went unexpectedly smoothly, and the angel round pulled an investment of 5 million, which is inseparable from the unique vision of "Grandma En" and the optimism of investors for her.
Life is gradually getting better, and there are two things that are extremely important to "Grandma En".
First, during this period, the mother made a huge change, no longer hoping that her father would change his mind, but firmly decided to divorce, which completely fell to the ground with the stone hanging in the heart of "Grandma En". The second is that she met a very good man, this man not only has his own career, but also distressed about the hardships and difficulties of "Grandma En" along the way, they got married, life was calm and warm, and soon had a lovely daughter, this daughter is "En".
Eun loves watching fairy tales as much as she does, and her favorite fairy tale character is Cinderella Cinderella. At this time, a bold idea was born in the heart of "Grandma En", she combined her good English with her daughter's favorite fairy tales to enlighten children in English, so she produced the "Cinderella and Stepmother" series of short videos.
More and more people paid attention to the "Cinderella and Stepmother" series of short videos of "Grandma En", and they expressed their liking, and even sent private messages hoping that "Grandma En" could open a live broadcast to share more English knowledge.
At the end of 2021, "Grandma En" began to broadcast live regularly, sharing children's books and stationery, each product must be strictly screened by her, if there are books that match the age of "En", she will take it to "Enen" as soon as possible, and observe the reaction of "Enen" and recommend. As sales grew, the prices offered by the brand to Grandma Eun became more affordable. She can always recommend good products for fans at lower prices than other live broadcast rooms.
At the end of each live broadcast, "Grandma En" will receive many thanks from cooperative publishing houses, thanking "Grandma En" for recommending her book to more people. This piece of information made "Grandma En" feel very gratified, and she felt that her efforts were not in vain.
"Some people use childhood to heal their whole lives, and some people use their whole lives to heal childhood" This is the copy inscribed by "Grandma En" in a video, which shows that the shadow of childhood has not completely dissipated for "Grandma En", it has always been a thorn in her heart, even if her current career is smooth and her life is happy, this thorn has not been removed.
It is precisely because she has an unhappy and unhappy childhood, so she hopes that her daughter "Eun" can feel love and warmth in her childhood. I hope that in the near future, with the passage of time, I can slowly soothe the pain in the heart of "Grandma En", and go to a better tomorrow with "En"!